STATE IDENTITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY – IDENTITY THEFT OR A CASE FOR REESTABLISHING THEORETICAL CORDIALITY?

Abstract: The increase of similarity between the individual characteristics recognized and asserted for an actor is utilized under the character claim of identity. In International Relations, this has been the communication dependent of the Constructivist research program. The foundation of the theoretical content of identity has mostly been developed, in Constructivist thought, by the linkage to state-identity. In these attempts, the evidence of national identities has been lapsing or totally made an absentee of. Can the national level test experimental discovery for the clear outline of the concept of state-identity in International Relations? Our answer, given and refracted throughout this article, is a positive one. While in the first section of this article, we try to fork out why all connections to identity have been referring to state-identity, in the second section of the paper, we will try to urge reasons of new disquisitions on national identities and their weigh of deliberation for new conceptextractions for state-identity, departing from the theoretical framework of Alexander Wendt